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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: <hassan.umar@tiscali.fr>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:54:13 +0200
Subject: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE.

Dear

With due respect to your person we wish to ask for your assistance for the retrieving and managment of our inherittance.
We are Master.Hassan and Miss Aicha Umar from Cote d'Ivoire we lost our parents a couple of years ago .our father was a wealthy cocoa farmer and later was appointed as the chairman of cocoa exporting Group of Cote d'Ivoire until his death they was assacineted by the rebels during the political problem in my country in the year 2002.

Before his death he told me that he deposited in a Security Company a trunk boxes containing the sum of US$15.5Million which he told me was for the importation of Cocoa processing equipments for the establishment of his cocoa processing plant in Abidjan.
After their death our uncles started treating us bad and took all that belong to our late parents and we have to run to our mother's village which is where we are writing you from

we want you to do us a favour to retrieve this funds to
a safe account in your country or any safer place by contacting the security company as the beneficiary of the consignments and the foreign partner to our late father who was to supply him with the equipments . we have plans to do investment in your country on real estate and industrial production.
This is our reason for writing you.

after the transfer of the fund to your account we will like to come over to your country to complete our education while you assist to manage the money untill we finish my education .
However feel free to tell us what percentage of the money we should offer you for your assistance.

Please if you are willing to assist us , indicate
your interest in replying soonest hassan_u2003@yahoo.com or call on phone 22507551665.
Thanks and best regards,
Hassan and Aicha Umar.



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